The apiarist studies the nature of the insect which must yield him its sweets, and discovers that "the nature of the cell and the food affects the difference" in the bees.
"A Story of One Short Life, 1783 to 1818 [Samuel John Mills]"
Elisabeth G. Stryker
An avid apiarist, Mendax kept his own hive.
"Underground"
Suelette Dreyfus
Those were the marauders who confounded anticipations of a comfortable livelihood in the decent calling of an apiarist.
"The Confessions of a Beachcomber"
E J Banfield